Fall Open Courses for 2024

Introduction to Feminist and Gender Studies (GSST H190A)
Gina Velasco, Assoc. Professor/Program Director
gvelasco [at] haverford.edu ()

Day | Time: TBD
Location: TBD

This course introduces students to major debates and issues within the interdisciplinary field of Feminist and Gender Studies. We will explore what feminist scholars have illuminated about the construction of gender and sexuality in multiple historic, present-day, and global contexts. Students will examine feminist debates about how race, class, and religion shape gender and sexuality in unequal ways. And, students will develop the skills to analyze how gender and sexuality have been regulated, reinforced, and transgressed in diverse settings.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality (Feminist Theory) (GSST H290A)
Gina Velasco, Assoc. Professor/Program Director
gvelasco [at] haverford.edu ()

Day | Time: TBD
Location: TBD

Explore the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, and embodiment in our time. Our focus is principally on the USA, though we make some forays into international conversations. Readings are drawn from a smattering of the most recent developments in academic research and theory, as well as from science fiction, activism, popular culture, and new media. We work to bring the personal into the classroom, and to take what we learn out into the world.

Introduction to Trans Studies (GSSTH192A)
Faculty: TBD

Day | Time: TBD
Location: TBD

Transgender (Trans) Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores understandings of sex and gender through the discussion of lived trans experiences and theoretical tools to analyze gender, desire, embodiment, and identity. Students will learn to situate and assess assumptions about gender and sexuality, categories of identity, and social location. This course will raise questions about the social, political, cultural, legal, and historical rhetoric surrounding gender diversity in the U.S. context.